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British sporting hero Andy Murray has been awarded an OBE by Prince William at Buckingham Palace, who was performing his first ever investiture. This summer, Andy became the first Briton to win Wimbledon since Virginia Wade in 1977, and the first British man to win it since Fred Perry in 1936...

One of the few remaining survivors of "The Great Escape" team who escaped from a German POW camp during WWII, immortalised in the 1963 film, has died aged 91. Frank Stone, who was then an 18-year-old RAF gunner, was taken to Stalag Luft III after his bomber crashed in Germany in 1940. Stone...

A three-week-old Sumatran tiger cub has been found drowned in London Zoo. On Saturday morning keepers in the Tiger Territory, which was only opened by Prince Philip in March, noticed that the cub could not be seen on the den cameras and raised the alarm. The cub's lifeless body was found...

A series of events is taking place today to mark the 100th anniversary of Britain's worst-ever pit disaster. On 14th October 1913, 440 men and boys were killed when an explosion ripped through the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd in Caerphilly county in south Wales. The explosion was caused by...

Finally, an MP with balls. British immigration minister Mark Harper and a five-time failed Iraqi asylum seeker clashed live on air yesterday. The two confronted each other on Sunday Politics West, the west of England's regional version of the national Sunday Politics. Harper, the Tory MP...

Conservators looking after a 1588 painting of Sir Walter Ralegh believe they have uncovered a small painted sea which they believe reveals the depth of his devotion to Queen Elizabeth I. A team at the National Portrait Gallery, just off Trafalgar Square, has discovered a small section of navy...

Britain's greatest treasures from the mysterious golden Age of Stonehenge are to go on display for the first time. It will be the largest collection of Early Bronze Age gold ever put on public display. The Wiltshire Museum in Devizes, 15 miles north of Stonehenge, is exhibiting 500...

The 7th Armoured Brigade, aka the Desert Rats (not to be confused with the 7th Armoured Division, which was also known as the Desert Rats, of WWII), are to be the last major British force sent to Afghanistan. The Rats will be responsible for packing away forces' equipment ahead of the final...

Scotland's national museum is recruiting online gamers to help piece together 3,000 fragments of the Hilton of Cadboll Stone. The stone was carved around 800AD in Inverness-shire which was then the heartland of the Picts. The top part of it was rediscovered in 1811, with the lower part, and...

Three children look miserable as they stare into the camera with their younger sibling asleep on a chair next to them. Well, that's what it looks like at first glance. In reality, however, the younger sibling isn't asleep - but dead. This is just one of a remarkable series of photographs...

Belgian scientist Francois Englert and British scientist Peter Higgs have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs Boson particle, which is named after the British scientist. Englert and Higgs theorised about the existence of the particle in the 1960s to...

Just over half a mile of replica British and German WWI trenches are to be built in the Cambridgeshire countryside as part of commemorations to mark the centenary of the conflict. Complete with their own No Man's Land, the trenches are to be built just of the A14 road. The National Centre...

The BBC have a brilliant new Saturday night fantasy drama for the autumn and winter - Atlantis. This is the third Saturday night fantasy series the BBC has made in recent years, following on from Robin Hood (2006-2009) and Merlin (2008-2012). The first episode of thirteen in this brand new...

Counting is under way in the Irish Republic in referendums to decide the fate of the Seanad Éireann (Irish for Irish Senate), the upper house of the Irish parliament. The current government of the Irish Republic, led by Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny, says that the Seanad costs too much...

Warships, galleons and tall ships from 17 nations sailed into Sydney Harbour today to celebrate the centenary of the Royal Australian Navy. On what was a beautiful spring day in Australia, thousands of spectators gathered along the harbour to welcome the 20-strong international fleet...

The RAF's famous 617 Squadron - known as The Dambusters because of its destruction of German dams during WWII - is preparing for its final tour before disbandment. However, the disbandment is only temporary as it will be re-formed in 2016 to fly the new Lighning II aircraft, of which the RAF...

The tiny, tiny nation of The Gambia - a tiny slither of a country in West Africa, three times smaller than Belgium, about 24 times smaller than the UK and with a population of just 1.7 million - has withdrawn from the Commonwealth. The nation branded the 54-member grouping (now a 53-member...

Workmen were working on a new housing estate in Monmouth, Monmouthshire in South Wales (the county of Monmouthshire was in England until 1974 when Wales annexed it, leading to some English nationalists rightly campaigning to get it back) when they just happened to come across what is probably...

Two weeks ago hiker John Stoneman was driving with his girlfriend through Kinzua State Park in Pennsylvania when they came across two Bigfoot/Bigfoots/Bigfeet. He quickly whipped out his camera and took a few photos of the seven foot tall hairy Hominids. Mr Stoneman, from Bradford, PA...

The Daily Mail and the leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband are embroiled in a war of words after the newspaper attacked Ed's father Ralph Miliband for his Marxist beliefs. Ralph was a Belgian Jew and Marxist academic who fled Belgium for Britain to escape the...